What changed

A. whereas the purpose of Draft Amendingamending Budgetbudget 1/2026 is to enter in the 2026 budget the surplus resulting from the implementation of the financial year 2025, which amounts to EUR 2 095 million;

1. Takes note of Draft Amendingamending Budgetbudget No 1/2026 as submitted by the Commission, which is to budget the 2025 surplus, for an amount of EUR 2 095 million, in accordance with Article 18(3) of the Financial Regulation;

6. Takes note of the negative income item under articleArticle 425, amounting to EUR 54 million and welcomes this method of incorporating costs for the budget stemming from payment made under settlement agreement entailing compensatory interest and default interest compensation related to the repayment of annulled or reduced competition fines in accordance with the pertinent judgements of the Court of Justice; recalls that the Parliament, when negotiating the 2024 recast of the Financial Regulation, had insisted on the application of this approach to avoid generating additional expenditure appropriations in the already overstretched heading 7; recalls that this solution comes to an end on 31 December 2027; invites the Commission to propose a definitive solution for the next MFF that achieves the same objective of avoiding any impact on the expenditure side of the budget;

8. Approves the Council position on Draft Amendingamending Budgetbudget No 1/2026;

9. Instructs its President to declare that Amending Budgetbudget No 1/2026 has been definitively adopted and arrange for its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union;